The beaches are open, the flowers are in full bloom, but for fashion folk, the summer doesn’t officially start until the first markdowns of the season are rung up on the shop floor. Photographed by Arthur Elgort for Vogue in 1995, Kate Moss’s beachy look isn’t exactly the kind of thing you’d wear to browse the sale racks at Barneys New York, but there is something about the carefree exuberance of the image that speaks to the optimism of now. If our shopping instincts are anything to go by, then the one thing you’ll want to wear from the sidewalk into the sand is a pair of flirty summer mules.

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Photo: (clockwise from top left) Courtesy of matchesfashion.com; Courtesy of journelle.com (2); Courtesy of Target; Courtesy of shopbop.com; Courtesy of Barneys New York; Courtesy of occa-home.co.uk